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ICE candle holder - free and GORGEOUS!

I guess living in a freezing cold area of the country has it's benefits. Things like these ICE CANDLES stay frozen!

On Thanksgiving my aunt had these stacked along the entry to her house.

The glowing, sparkly wet candles looked so amazing. She used large gallon containers but said you could even make giant ones out of a 5 gallon buckets (wouldn't that look amazing!)

My daughter and I started with a set of little ones.

We wanted to make them all different heights so we just filled up the cups to different levels.

Next we put them outside to freeze. It took our water glasses overnight to get to the correct freezing point. You don't want them 100% frozen - just about 75% solid. Tip upside down and run some warm water around the cup or bucket and out comes your amazing ice candle holder and the extra water which makes up the space for your candle!

Place them on your porch steps or on the railing of your deck. It will make such a statement.

If you have any questions just leave a comment and I'll be sure and answer them. Can you imagine red holly berries (or even cranberries) layered in the bottom of a gallon size one? Any other ideas? Is anyone going to try this? We'd love to hear!

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I want to thank you for your comment on my site re: making the pictures bigger... I will for sure do that, thanks so much! (I also need to learn how to hold a camera steady!) I will revamp it this week, so come back for another tour! :-) Thanks so much! Jules from bles-id

Those are TRULY AMAZING! Almost makes me wish I lived somewhere that it gets below freezing (OK, maybe not, but I can't get over how beautiful they are!) I'm sharing post on FB for my cold weather friends.

How beautiful. We have always had a string of colored lights on our deck, but I just wasn't in the mood for them this year. But this is exactly what I'd like to see when I look out by window on Christmas Eve. Thanks for sharing. I'll be linking on Facebook.

Another easy way to make them is to use cans of veggies to make the space for the candle - put the veggies in the bucket - fill with water and freeze. My step-mom made these when a friend of hers got married - to line the steps of the church - she made them in ice cream buckets and put several buckets in her deep freeze!

Beautiful, if we ever get any snow here near Denver I am going to have to try this. It has been in the 50s-60s all month and I am loving it. Now I am kind of wishing for a little cold weather for New Years.

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Brilliant! They look beautiful all lit up! I'm your newest follower from the Penny Pinching Party. Would love to have you stop by my site and even join my Tip Day Thursday Carnival (it goes up late Wed nights).

LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea!!! Hubby even thinks it grand, he is an avid white light installer (sometimes it looks like an airport here). We will try it eventually but it's touch and go in Vancouver (cold enough).

I think we're probably done with our cold weather now, or atleast the coldest weather maybe but i think these would be lovely at Christmas and New Years Eve. I did once freeze something and it looked candle like but i didn't know what to do with it and never thought to put it outside bar photographing it lol

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